Adhesive tablet.



No. 738,703. a

' UNITE STATES Patented September 8, 1903.

PATENT OFFICE.

GO'ITFRIED SCHMALFUSS, OF COLOGNE, GERMANY, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- HALF TO' HENRY LIERZ, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

ADHESIVE TABLETL SPEGIIEICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 7 38,703, dated September 8, 1903.. Application filed August 28, 1902. Serial No. 121,2;93. (No model.)

To alZl whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GOTTFRIED SCHMAL- Fuss, a subject of the King of Prussia, German Emperor, residing at Oologne-on-the- Rhine, in the Province of the Rhine, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire, have invented an Improved Adhesive Tablet, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in adhesive tablets adapted for use as a substitute for liquid glue and other liquid adhep of a powdered adhesive substance and a powdered substance of quicker solubility, which while associated intimately with each other and commingled remain mechanically separated, so that each preserves its identity, the same being mixed and compressed while dry.

By the term tablet as used in this specification I mean a cake, stick, or other form adapted to be readily handled and used and of any desired shape and size.

These tablets show a granular structure and they are not subject to excessive hardening, bending, or becoming split. If part of the surface is wetted with a brush, an immediate solution of a certain part of this adhesive sub- 

